RAID + UEFI

[Diego Zuccato]

TL;DR: IMO having /boot/uefi on (sw) RAID1 is not worth the headaches.
Long version follows.

That's quite normal. You should use older RAID format that places 
metadata at the end of the partition instead of the newer that places it 
at the beginning. And even so it's risky, since one of the partitions 
could get modified by other systems (the BIOS, for example) that aren't 
RAID-aware (that's also one of the reasons that lead to the newer 
format...).

Since you're using FAI, it's probably faster to just completely 
reinstall the system (possibly preserving data partition(s)) than 
risking RAID desync and related headaches. To keep the disk partitions 
aligned, you could use the "mirror" space for an extra swap partition :)

Diego

Il 20/09/2023 09:26, Andrew Ruthven ha scritto:
> Hey,
> 
> Just a note that I've found that some hardware doesn't like /boot/efi 
> being on RAID1. Which is rather disappointing.
> 
> But otherwise, the examples that Justin provided look very similar to 
> what I've succesfully used (although sometimes without the RAID1 for 
> /boot/efi!)
> 
> Cheers,
> Andrew
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